Xsters

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

With regard to Xsters, heare are a few bibliographic references:
1) K. Lubbers 1965.  The development of -ster in modern British and American English.  English Studies 46: 449-470.
2) Gerald Leonard Cohen 1984: Origin of the Term "Shyster": Supplementary Information (= Forum Anglicum, vol. 13), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag..  ------- Pages 86-90 (based heavily on Lubbers' article) contain the section titled "A look at the history of -ster."
3) IIRC, the following item contains good information on -ster, although I don't remember the pages:
Hans Marchand 1969: The Categories and Types of Present-day English Word-Formation.  Munich: Beck, 2nd edition.

Gerald Cohen

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